According to Scientific American, two teams of researchers are making progress developing alternatives to surgically removing tumors: One team of researchers has been able to …
Month: November 2009
Sorry we missed you this morning
At around 11:30 a.m. this morning our data center experienced problems that resulted in an outage of all School of Medicine web sites. As you …
Childbirth may be beneficial for MS patients
While I was enjoying a lazy holiday and filling up on turkey and pumpkin pie, some interesting news broke about women with multiple sclerosis. Research …
Study on fruit flies offers new insights into ADHD
Evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been uncovered by researchers at the California Technical Institute, according to a …
Health-reform bill aims to benefit breastfeeding moms
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog highlights this morning an interesting detail in the U.S. Senate's health-reform bill. The legislation contains a provision that would …
Happy Thanksgiving
We're signing off for the the Thanksgiving holiday and we'll resume posting on Monday, November 30. All of us at Scope want to wish our …
Dancing with cerebral palsy
I don't usually get teary-eyed reading the New York Times but yesterday's piece on how dance has transformed the life of a man with cerebral …
Interactive chart illustrates the cost of chronic health conditions
GE has built a fascinating interactive chart that attempts to illustrate the costs of chronic health conditions. In developing the chart, the GE combined the …
Brain scan used in court in potential fMRI first
In what may be a first, fMRI scans of a defendant's brain activity have been used as evidence in the sentencing phase of an Illinois …
How the H1N1 vaccine is made
Blogger Jason Kottke has complied a succint, interesting description of the manufacturing process for the H1N1 influenza vaccine: The most striking feature of the H1N1 …
Q&A on bioethics and policy with Stanford law expert
Stanford law professor Hank Greely, JD, recently hosted a discussion on Facebook as part of Stanford Open Office Hours. In the latest installment of Open …
Book of beautiful specimens illustrates evolution
Before Darwin was a writer, he was a natural historian and collector aboard a ship launched from England to chart the coast of South America. …
New NIH grants fill gap in pediatric drug research
Eighteen new grants worth $8.5 million represent part of an ongoing effort by the NIH to re-think old attitudes toward drug testing in kids. The …
Key enzyme in breast cancer development identified (updated)
[UPDATE: This entry has been modified to include the name of the lead author of the study and to explain how the study relates to …
The NY Times: a medical culture clash
Today's New York Times has two excellent articles that give some depth, analysis and perspecive to what happened this week in the public debacle over …
More evidence that seasonal flu vaccine protects against H1N1
A week ago, I noted that being old enough to have experienced earlier forms of the H1N1 influenza strain that were circulating prior to 1958 …